MANY PATCHES
Ian Shafer is a passionate, multifaceted musician. He enjoys a very active freelance performance career in New York City—as a conductor, soloist, chamber, and orchestral musician—spanning a wide breadth of styles from the Baroque to Contemporary improvisation. He has debuted at Carnegie Hall’s Weil Recital Hall, played for delegates of the United Nations and has been on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music in the Precollege divisions of Music Theory and Woodwinds since 2013. Additionally, he is a published author for the International Double Reed Society and has studied composition in Vienna with Richard Hoffmann, a student of Arnold Schoenberg